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Time Clawshine — OpenClaw Time Machine

Restic-powered encrypted time machine for OpenClaw: hourly incremental snapshots, fast restore by time/snapshot/file, local-only privacy defaults, integrity...

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Rank

Safety

Downloads

1.9k

Updated

Oct 9, 2026

Version

3.2.3

Source

CLAWHUB

About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 1.9K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/9/2026.

Avoid when

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

Every fact links back to the source it came from.

Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 9, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 9, 2026
Adoption signal: 1.9K downloadsadoption · observed Oct 9, 2026
Latest release: 3.2.3release · observed Jun 1, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17e8p1qmgndbnt8k67r1my2mh84hh5n:quick-backup-restore

Install using `clawhub skill install s17e8p1qmgndbnt8k67r1my2mh84hh5n:quick-backup-restore` in an isolated environment before connecting it to live workloads.
No published capability contract is available yet, so validate auth and request/response behavior manually.
Review the upstream CLAWHUB listing at https://clawhub.ai/marzliak/quick-backup-restore before using production credentials.

Contract: missing

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/clawhub-marzliak-quick-backup-restore/snapshot"

Documentation

CLAWHUB

156,696 characters of source documentation, loaded on request.

Extracted files

5 files captured from the source.

SKILL.md

---
name: quick-backup-restore
description: "Restic-powered encrypted time machine for OpenClaw: hourly incremental snapshots, fast restore by time/snapshot/file, local-only privacy defaults, integrity checks, retention, and optional alerts. Setup can run with sudo, install dependencies, create systemd/cron persistence, restore over current files, and prune or purge recovery data."
metadata: { "openclaw": { "emoji": "⏱", "requires": { "bins": ["bash", "openssl", "curl", "jq"], "auto_install": ["restic", "yq"] }, "install": [{ "id": "setup", "kind": "shell", "label": "Run Time Clawshine setup", "command": "sudo bash {baseDir}/bin/setup.sh" }], "homepage": "https://github.com/marzliak/quick-backup-restore", "capabilities": { "filesystem": ["read configured backup paths", "write encrypted restic repository", "restore snapshots to target paths", "forget/prune snapshots", "optional destructive purge"], "system": ["sudo setup", "optional package install", "optional systemd timer or cron", "optional logrotate and /usr/local/bin install"], "network": ["optional Telegram", "optional healthcheck", "optional ClawHub update check", "blocked by privacy.local_only by default"], "sensitive_data": ["OpenClaw memory", "sessions", "config", "user-added paths may contain secrets"] } } }
---

# ⏱🦞 Time Clawshine — OpenClaw Time Machine

**Your agent just nuked its own memory. Now what?**

You spent weeks training your OpenClaw agent — building memory, refining context, tuning personality. Then one bad session wipes it. Gone. And your last "real" backup? Yesterday. Maybe last week.

**Time Clawshine gives OpenClaw a local encrypted time machine.** Every hour, restic takes an incremental snapshot of your agent's brain — memory, sessions, config, everything. Only changed bytes are stored, so backups stay fast and compact. When things break (and they will), you roll back by time, snapshot, or file to *exactly* the moment before it happened. Not yesterday. Not "the last backup." The exact hour.

Security note: this is a privileged backup/restore tool, not a narrow read-only helper. Setup can install packages and a scheduler with `sudo`; restore can overwrite current files; retention/prune can remove old recovery points; and optional external integrations can send minimal operational metadata only after explicit opt-in.

**One command to install. Zero maintenance. Just works.**

```bash
sudo bash {baseDir}/bin/setup.sh
```

### Why this exists

| Problem | Without Time Clawshine | With Time Clawshine |
|---------|----------------------|---------------------|
| Agent overwrites MEMORY.md | Hope you saved a copy | `restore.sh "2h ago"` |
| Bad session corrupts context | Rebuild from scratch | Roll back one snapshot |
| "What changed?" | No idea | `restic diff` between any two snapshots |
| Disk fills up | Backup keeps growing | Dedup — only deltas stored |
| Something fails | You find out next week | Local log, optional minimal Telegram ping |

### What's under the hood

-

README.md

# ⏱🪞 Time Clawshine — OpenClaw Time Machine

[![CI](https://github.com/marzliak/quick-backup-restore/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/marzliak/quick-backup-restore/actions/workflows/ci.yml)

**Restic-powered encrypted snapshots for OpenClaw.**

Time Clawshine is a local-first time machine for OpenClaw: hourly incremental snapshots, fast restore by time/snapshot/file, integrity checks, retention, and privacy defaults that keep external egress off unless you opt in. It is not a plain tarball backup; restic handles encryption, deduplication, and snapshot history.

Security note: setup can run with `sudo`, install dependencies, register systemd/cron persistence, back up sensitive OpenClaw memory/sessions/config, restore over current files, and prune old recovery points. Telegram, healthcheck.io / hc-style pings, and ClawHub update checks are optional and disabled by default.

**Platform:** Linux only (bash scripts). macOS works with Homebrew restic but is untested. Windows not supported.

Read [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) and [PRIVACY.md](PRIVACY.md) before installing on a production agent.

---

## Quick start

From OpenClaw / ClawHub:

```bash
openclaw skills search quick-backup-restore
openclaw skills install quick-backup-restore
```

Use the slug `quick-backup-restore`; some OpenClaw CLI versions do not accept
the owner-prefixed form `marzliak/quick-backup-restore`.

From GitHub:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/marzliak/quick-backup-restore
cd quick-backup-restore
bash bin/setup.sh --dry-run  # preview deps, files, scheduler, and privacy settings
nano config.yaml             # optional: review paths and opt in to integrations
sudo bin/setup.sh            # installs deps, initializes repo, registers scheduler
```

Or, repo-only setup (no apt-get, no cron, no /usr/local/bin changes):

```bash
sudo bin/setup.sh --no-system-install
```

Done. Backups run every hour at :05 by default.

---

## Flags

| Flag | Script | Description |
|------|--------|-------------|
| `--help` / `-h` | all scripts | Show usage and exit |
| `--dry-run` | `setup.sh` | Preview dependencies, system files, scheduler, and privacy settings without changes |
| `--skip-backup` | `setup.sh` | Skip the initial validation backup after setup |
| `--no-system-install` | `setup.sh` | Repo-only setup: creates repo dir, generates password, inits restic. Skips apt-get, cron registration, and binary install to `/usr/local/bin` |
| `--assume-yes` / `-y` | `setup.sh` | Skip dependency installation confirmation prompt (for CI/automated use) |
| `--dry-run` | `backup.sh` | Show what would be backed up without writing |
| `--keep-last N` | `prune.sh` | Override retention for this run |
| `--older-than DURATION` | `prune.sh` | Remove snapshots older than duration (e.g. `7d`, `24h`) |
| `--dry-run` | `prune.sh` | Preview cleanup without deleting |
| `--yes` / `-y` | `prune.sh` | Skip confirmation prompt |
| `--yes` / `-y` | `uninstall.sh` | Skip confirmation (system fi

_meta.json

{
  "ownerId": "kn70vfzhzzmqtsnrnma3tgqydn828jp8",
  "slug": "quick-backup-restore",
  "version": "3.2.3",
  "publishedAt": 1780344697115
}

CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

All notable changes to Time Clawshine are documented here.
Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).

---

## [3.2.3] — 2026-06-01

### Fixed

- Preserve custom backup cadence when installing on systemd hosts. `setup.sh`
now converts simple cron expressions such as `0 */2 * * *` to equivalent
`OnCalendar` values instead of falling back to hourly.
- Fall back to `/etc/cron.d/time-clawshine` for cron expressions that cannot be
converted safely, preserving the user's configured `schedule.cron` exactly.

### Documentation

- Document the OpenClaw install command with the slug-only format:
`openclaw skills install quick-backup-restore`.
- Add "every 2 hours" as a first-class setup-guide frequency option.

---

## [3.2.2] — 2026-06-01

### Fixed

- Rename `skill-card.md` to `MARKETPLACE.md` because ClawHub generates `skill-card.md` internally and rejects direct publishes containing that file.

---

## [3.2.1] — 2026-06-01

### Changed

- Refresh ClawHub positioning around the public name
`Time Clawshine — OpenClaw Time Machine`.
- Rewrite the first-line description for discovery around restic, encrypted
snapshots, time/snapshot/file restore, local-only privacy defaults, integrity,
retention, and optional alerts.
- Split discovery tags into focused tags: backup, restore, restic, snapshots,
time-machine, encrypted-backup, local-backup, openclaw, disaster-recovery, and
privacy.
- Add `skill-card.md` with concise marketplace copy highlighting the difference
between restic snapshots and plain tarball backups.

---

## [3.2.0] — 2026-06-01

### Security

- Respond to the ClawHub security audit by making sensitive capabilities explicit
in `skill.json`, `SKILL.md`, `README.md`, `SECURITY.md`, and `PRIVACY.md`.
The docs now call out root setup, package installation, scheduler persistence,
backup of sensitive OpenClaw memory/session/config data, restore overwrite
risk, retention/prune deletion, purge behavior, and optional network egress.
- Add `privacy.local_only: true` as the default hard egress gate. While enabled,
Telegram, healthcheck, and ClawHub update checks are blocked even if their
individual config blocks are edited.
- Change `updates.check` default to `false`; update checks now require explicit
opt-in by setting `privacy.local_only: false` and `updates.check: true`.
- Minimize external notifications by default: no hostname and no raw error
output. `privacy.send_error_details: true` enables only a short sanitized error
excerpt.
- Require healthcheck URLs to use `https://` unless they point to loopback
localhost.
- Remove the Telegram notification from `uninstall.sh`; uninstall no longer
reports host identity, timing, or removal state to an external service.
- Stop auto-suggesting `~/.ssh` and `~/.gnupg` in `customize.sh`; credential
stores now require manual opt-in with explicit warnings.

### Added

- `setup.sh --dry-run` previews dependencies, repository/password

MARKETPLACE.md

# Time Clawshine — OpenClaw Time Machine

Restic-powered encrypted snapshots for OpenClaw.

Time Clawshine is a local-first time machine for agent memory, sessions, config,
and workspace state. It keeps hourly incremental snapshots, stores only changed
data, and restores by time, snapshot, or file when an agent session corrupts
state or overwrites important memory.

## Highlights

- Hourly encrypted incremental snapshots via restic
- Restore by time, snapshot ID, or individual file
- Local-only privacy defaults: Telegram, healthcheck, and update checks are off
- Integrity checks, retention, prune, and status dashboard
- Setup preview with `setup.sh --dry-run`
- Strong restore safety gate for `/`

## Best For

- Rolling OpenClaw memory back to an exact hour
- Recovering from bad sessions, corrupted context, or accidental overwrites
- Keeping a compact local recovery layer before full VM or cloud DR backups

## Not A Plain Tarball

Most simple backup skills create timestamped archives. Time Clawshine uses restic
for encryption, deduplication, snapshots, and verified restores.

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